VP, Payments Engineering

About The Role

The Vice President of Payments Engineering is responsible for leading the engineering organization that delivers WEX's Payments platform. You will lead multiple global engineering teams responsible for designing, building, and operating mission-critical payment systems that process billions of dollars in transactions while maintaining the highest standards of availability, security, scalability, and customer trust. Success in this role requires equal strength in technology leadership, engineering execution, organizational leadership, and business partnership. You will be responsible for transforming engineering practices through AI-native software development while delivering predictable business outcomes and accelerating WEX's modernization journey.

Responsibilities

• Lead World-Class Engineering Organizations
  • Lead multiple global software engineering teams responsible for Payments platforms and services.
  • Build an engineering culture focused on innovation, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous learning.
  • Attract, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent.
  • Coach engineering leaders and build a strong leadership pipeline.
• Deliver Critical Business Outcomes
  • Own engineering delivery for Payments initiatives.
  • Translate technology strategy into executable roadmaps.
  • Deliver predictable, high-quality software that meets customer and business commitments.
  • Drive engineering execution across multiple product domains and shared platform capabilities.
  • Partner with Product and Technology leadership to balance customer value, delivery speed, and technical sustainability.
• Drive AI-Native Software Engineering

  Lead the adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the software development lifecycle, including:

  • AI-assisted software design
  • AI-powered coding
  • Intelligent testing automation
  • AI-driven code reviews
  • Automated documentation
  • AI-enabled operational excellence
  • Developer productivity platforms
  • Agentic software engineering
• Build Modern Payments Platforms
  • Lead engineering for highly available payment platforms supporting:
    • Virtual Payments
    • Accounts Payable
    • Payment orchestration
    • Payment processing
    • Embedded Payments
    • Treasury and settlement
    • Commercial card platforms
    • API-first payment capabilities
  • Develop highly scalable cloud-native systems capable of supporting enterprise customers around the world.
• Partner Across the Business

  Collaborate closely with:

  • Product Leadership
  • Payments Technology Leadership
  • Commercial teams
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Security
  • Operations
  • Customer Success
  • Finance
  • External partners
• Modernize Through Help Drive WEX's Transformation
  • Build reusable payment capabilities
  • Accelerate platform convergence
  • Improve engineering productivity
  • Reduce technical debt
  • Standardize engineering practices
  • Drive cloud modernization
  • Enable intelligent automation

Requirements

• Qualifications
  • 20+ years of software engineering experience with at least 12 years leading large engineering organizations.
  • Significant experience building modern payment systems, financial platforms, or other highly regulated transaction-processing platforms.
  • Deep understanding of payments, including authorization, settlement, reconciliation, treasury, commercial payments, payment networks, APIs, and payment operations.
  • Proven experience delivering cloud-native distributed systems at enterprise scale.
  • Strong technical background across modern architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, Kubernetes, public cloud, observability, resilience, and security.
  • Demonstrated success leading organizational transformation.
  • Strong software delivery track record with predictable execution across multiple teams.
  • Experience leading globally distributed engineering organizations.
  • Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred Experience
  • Experience at a leading payments or fintech company.
  • Experience building AI-native engineering organizations.
  • Experience implementing AI-assisted software development tools.
  • Experience modernizing legacy platforms.
  • Experience with platform engineering and developer productivity.
  • Experience leading large-scale cloud migrations.
  • MBA or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Leadership Characteristics

The successful candidate will be:

• A Builder: Creates exceptional engineering organizations that consistently deliver customer value.
• A Technologist: Brings deep technical credibility and earns the respect of senior engineers.
• A Payments Expert: Understands how modern payment ecosystems operate and anticipates industry evolution.
• AI-Native: Sees AI not as a feature, but as the future operating model for software engineering.
• A Business Partner: Builds trusted relationships across Product, Commercial, and Technology while keeping customer outcomes at the center of every decision.
• A Transformation Leader: Thrives in ambiguity, embraces change, and inspires teams through large-scale modernization.
• A Talent Multiplier: Develops future leaders and creates an environment where engineers can do the best work of their careers.

Why Join WEX?

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of Payments at one of the industry's leading financial technology companies. You'll help define the next generation of intelligent payment platforms, lead the adoption of AI-native software engineering, and influence how modern financial technology is built at enterprise scale.

Pay

Pay Range: $283,000.00 - $332,400.00

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurances
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

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